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• First lady tells church group to work for change
• Under scrutiny, Vatican bank opens its doors
• Pope puts U.S.'s Fulton Sheen on road to sainthood
• Vatican bank lifts veil with reporters' tour
• Uganda anti-gay bill draws church, donor battle lines
• Late Dutch Catholic brother suspect in '50s deaths
• Pope sets stage for historic blending of choirs

First lady tells church group to work for change Posted: 28 Jun 2012 01:39 PM PDT First lady Michelle Obama brought an audience of 10,000 African Methodist Episcopal Church members to their feet as she exhorted them to get involved in the issues that affect their lives.

Under scrutiny, Vatican bank opens its doors Posted: 28 Jun 2012 01:35 PM PDT The Vatican bank, one of the more secretive institutions of the secrecy-obsessed Vatican, opened itself up to a little external scrutiny Thursday in a bid to show it's serious about fighting money-laundering and being more financially transparent.

Pope puts U.S.'s Fulton Sheen on road to sainthood Posted: 28 Jun 2012 10:10 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict put the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, seen as the world's first televangelist because of his popular programs in the 1950s-1960s in the United States, on the road to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday. The pope signed a decree recognizing that Sheen lived a life of "heroic virtues", an early step in the path that can lead to sainthood. Now a miracle must be attributed for him to be beatified, which is the last step before sainthood. ...

Vatican bank lifts veil with reporters' tour Posted: 28 Jun 2012 08:45 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican bank, attempting to project a new image of transparency ahead of a decision by EU financial authorities next month, lifted its veil of secrecy on Thursday by allowing journalists to visit the institution for the first time. The tour came one month after the bank's president, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, was ousted by the board of the bank, in a move he said was aimed at stopping his efforts to make the bank more transparent. The Vatican said he was just a bad manager. ...

Uganda anti-gay bill draws church, donor battle lines Posted: 28 Jun 2012 07:47 AM PDT KAMPALA (Reuters) - Peter, 23, used to enjoy hitting Kampala's bars with his boyfriend until a draft bill dubbed "kill the gays" forced him into hiding. "I'm so, so afraid. I just live indoors," he says, sitting in the semi-darkness of the cramped two-room dwelling where he has lived since his family and friends turned on him after the bill was introduced in 2009. In this conservative east African country, the bill that initially proposed hanging gays has pitted veteran President Yoweri Museveni's government against two influential but opposing forces: the evangelical church and western ...

Late Dutch Catholic brother suspect in '50s deaths Posted: 28 Jun 2012 07:26 AM PDT A brother at a Catholic institute for disabled boys may have been involved in the suspicious deaths of 37 patients in the 1950s, Dutch prosecutors announced Thursday.

Pope sets stage for historic blending of choirs Posted: 28 Jun 2012 12:55 AM PDT The Sistine Chapel Choir, whose boys and men sing for the pope at all his Masses, is about to get some illustrious company.

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